I currently drive a 1992 325i. I got it in my 2nd year of college and I instantly fell in love with the car. Even as a sophomore I was pretty sure that I wanted to be some type of surgeon so I decided to get some personalized plates that would mirror my interests. My personalized plate basically spelled out the word SCALPEL. So since college I have been rocking that license plate but since I got into medical school I have started to become increasingly embarrassed by my plates. The plates seemed so cool in college but now that I’m actually in a medical environment it just comes off to be as showy and ostentatious, even though that was not my intention at all. Every time one of my classmates sees my tags they always chuckle…and not the kind of chuckle that says, “Hey that’s cool”, but the kind of chuckle that says, “What a D-bag, who do you think you are?”. No technically I don’t care what others think, but I can’t really describe how much discomfort I was starting to feel about my tags. I just want to be normal, and I don’t think now that I need to advertise that I want to be a surgeon, especially not on a material thing like a car. So I have decided to switch them out for normal plates…I guess its part of growing up.
Funny story though, I was driving down a road past the hospital with my scalpel plates and I pulled up at the light beside a Toyota that was being driven by a guy in scrubs. As I took off when the light turned green the guy saw my tags, and when we stopped at the next light the guys was now wearing his surgical cap!!! He started to rev his engine, I guess desiring a surgeon drag race. To be honest he was probably a scrub tech or something like this but this just encouraged me even more to just get my tags changed, lol.
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